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AUP Common Read: Yannick M Blec on James Baldwin

To round off this semester’s Common Read activity, we are delighted to invite the AUP community to a James Baldwin workshop with Baldwin’s most recent French biographer, Yannick M. Blec. Yannick will be leading attendees through a consideration of Baldwin ...

Stephen Sawyer, Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern (Care & Democracy Seminar Series)

Abstract How may we make sense of the void at the center of our narratives of contract theory: from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, did social contract theory really disappear in the years following the French Revolution only to be magically resurrected ...

AN EVENING WITH LAUREN ELKIN

The Program in Creative Writing is delighted to welcome Lauren Elkin back to AUP for an evening devoted to her work. Lauren will read from new and selected projects, and an audience Q&A will follow, as well as a reception with wine and cheese. Convers ...

Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good

The session, titled Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good, will feature a 30-minute keynote address from, Christophe Gauthier, a leader of UNESCO’s Internet for Trust initiative, followed by an open Q&A discussion with stud ...

Law, State, and Democracy | International Symposium 2025

Download The Symposium Booklet Program and Bios Abstract This Symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working at the crossroads of law, the state and democracy. Within liberal democracy, rule of law is commonly treated as ...

Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Professor Miranda Spieler's New Book on Slaves in Paris

By Katelyn Simone “I study people on the run,” says AUP Professor Miranda Spieler, a historian of France and its overseas empire whose expertise spans European legal history, human rights, slavery and emancipation. Her first book, Empire and Underworld: ...

A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present

AUP Students Visit the Assemblée Nationale as the French Government Collapses

By Savannah Gerlach On October 6, 2025, 16 AUP students and Professor Mirjam Dageförde arrived in front of l’Assemblée Nationale de Paris (the National Assembly of Paris), anticipating a guided tour of the nation’s lower house of parliament, and an insid ...

Colloque "Les Lieux de la folie" / "Sites of Madness"

Les Lieux de la folie – Sites of Madness est un colloque organisé à The American University of Paris du 15 au 17 octobre 2026 (6, rue du Colonel Combes, Paris 7e). Il explore la manière dont la folie s’inscrit dans des espaces concrets – hôpital psychiatr ...

Paris Book Launch: "See You Through" by Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen

Join us for a reading from, and discussion of, the new novel, See You Through, co-written by Alex Houen and Geoff Gilbert. This collaborative fiction/poem, written online during the pandemic, considers the politics and affect of facial recognition technol ...

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